Job opening Solution Architect Aspen

Capgemini; Hyderabad, Pune District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,400,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini seeks an experienced Solution Architect for Data Historian & Distributed SCADA to lead AspenTech architecture for secure, scalable data collection across plants. The role spans integration with PLCs, MES, ERP, and OT environments, emphasizing governance, high availability, and cyber security.

Mandatory MES/shopfloor implementation and pre-sales solutioning are required, with hands-on deployment and end-to-end project ownership across multi-site operations.

Qualifications

• MES or shopfloor implementation experience is mandatory.
• Pre-sales and solutioning experience is mandatory.
• Experience leading MES/shopfloor/automation/historian projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and site-level AspenTech historian and distributed SCADA architecture, standards, governance, and roadmap.
• Design tag strategy, acquisition, buffering, compression, replication, contextualization, visualization, events, and retention policies.
• Architect integrations with PLCs, DCS, SCADA, OPC servers, MES, ERP, maintenance, laboratory, energy, reporting, and analytics platforms.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, time synchronization, network segmentation, remote connectivity, and OT cybersecurity patterns.
• Lead assessment, sizing, detailed design, installation, configuration, migration, testing, commissioning, cutover, and hypercare.
• Define performance monitoring, data-quality controls, backup, archival, access governance, and production support.
• Collaborate with operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, IT, OT, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor delivery teams and enforce architecture governance, documentation, coding/configuration standards, and DevOps best practices.

Skills

Production execution

Track & trace

Production scheduling

Shopfloor integration

Continuous improvement

Tools

AspenTech historian & SCADA architecture

Industrial data acquisition (PLC/DCS/OPC)

Sizing, buffering, replication, archival

OT networking & cybersecurity

Pre-sales & solutioning

RFP/RFI responses & estimation

Job description

Hi,

Job Description Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA

Experience: 12–15 Years

Location: PAN India

Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Utilities, Process Industries

Technology Stack: AspenTech

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA to lead AspenTech data-historian and distributed SCADA architecture for secure, reliable, and scalable collection of shopfloor and operational data. The candidate must have implemented production environments spanning plants, control systems, historians, MES, and enterprise analytics.

MES or shopfloor implementation experience is mandatory. Pre-sales and solutioning experience is also mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and site-level AspenTech historian and distributed SCADA architecture, standards, governance, and roadmap.
• Design tag strategy, acquisition, buffering, compression, replication, contextualization, visualization, events, and retention policies.
• Architect integrations with PLCs, DCS, SCADA, OPC servers, MES, ERP, maintenance, laboratory, energy, reporting, and analytics platforms.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, time synchronization, network segmentation, remote connectivity, and OT cybersecurity patterns.
• Lead assessment, sizing, detailed design, installation, configuration, migration, testing, commissioning, cutover, and hypercare.
• Define performance monitoring, data-quality controls, backup, archival, access governance, and production support.
• Collaborate with operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, IT, OT, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor delivery teams and enforce architecture governance, documentation, coding/configuration standards, and DevOps best practices.

Technical Skills

Mandatory

• AspenTech historian and distributed SCADA architecture
• Hands-on implementation, migration, commissioning, and support
• Industrial data acquisition from PLC, DCS, SCADA, and OPC sources
• Sizing, buffering, compression, replication, archival, and high availability
• MES/shopfloor integration, OT networking, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery
• Solution architecture, integration design, security, performance, and technical governance
• Pre-sales, RFP/RFI response, estimation, solutioning, workshops, and customer presentations

Preferred

• OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, messaging, and event-driven integration
• Cloud platforms, containers, DevOps, cybersecurity, analytics, and multi-site rollouts
• ISA-88 / ISA-95 and relevant manufacturing-domain standards

Manufacturing Domain Knowledge

Strong understanding of:

• Production execution and work-order management
• Track and trace, genealogy, quality, and nonconformance management
• Production-scheduling integration and material/inventory tracking
• Machine, equipment, PLC, SCADA, historian, and shopfloor integration
• Plant deployment, cutover, ramp-up, hypercare, and continuous improvement

Implementation Experience – Mandatory

• Proven ownership of at least one full MES, shopfloor, automation, historian, or asset-management implementation lifecycle—from discovery and architecture through build/configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Ability to lead customer and plant teams during workshops, design reviews, testing, cutover, production stabilization, and rollout.

Pre-Sales & Solutioning – Mandatory

• Support RFP/RFI responses, effort estimation, technical solutioning, architecture definition, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and commercial inputs.
• Create solution blueprints, integration architectures, sizing models, bills of material, implementation roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Lead customer workshops, technical presentations, architecture reviews, demonstrations, and Proof-of-Concept initiatives.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work across business, IT, OT, engineering, quality, operations, vendors, and globally distributed teams.